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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Freedom

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We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.

The Ethics of Ambiguity - Pour une morale de l'ambiguïté - 1947.

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One is not born a woman, one becomes one.

The Second Sex - 1949.

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Time is beginning to flow again.

All Men are Mortal. - Tous les hommes sont mortels - 1946

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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it. Psychiatrists have told me that they give The Second Sex to their women patients to read, and not merely to intellectual women but to lower-middle-class women, to office workers and women working in factories. 'Your book was a great help to me. Your book saved me,' are the words I have read in letters from women of all ages and all walks of life. If my book has helped women, it is because it expressed them, and they in their turn gave it its truth. Thanks to them, it is no longer a matter for scandal and concern. During these last ten years the myths that men created have crumbled, and many women writers have gone beyond me and have been far more daring than I. Too many of them for my taste take sexuality as their only theme; but at least when they write about it they now present themselves as the eye-that-looks, as subject, consciousness, freedom.

Force of Circumstances - 1963.

Age, Courage, Freedom, Happiness, Knowledge, Men, Myth, Sex, Truth, Women, Author

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Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass."

All Men are Mortal - Tous les hommes sont mortels - 1946.

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That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

All Men are Mortal - Tous les hommes sont mortels - 1946.

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For the first time in my life, I took part in a real battle between men. The dead did not come to life again, the vanquished fled in disorder; every thrust of my lance helped save Carmona. That day, I would have died with a smile on my lips, certain of having contributed to a triumphant future for my city.

All Men are Mortal - Tous les hommes sont mortels - 1946.

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In spite of so many stubborn lies, at every moment, at every opportunity, the truth comes to light, the truth of life and death, of my solitude and my bond with the world, of my freedom and my servitude, of the insignificance and the sovereign importance of each man and all men. There was Stalingrad and there was Buchenwald, and neither of the two wipes out the other. Since we do not succeed in fleeing it, let us therefore try to look the truth in the face. Let us try to assume our fundamental ambiguity. It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our life that we must draw our strength to live and our reason for acting.

The Ethics of Ambiguity - Pour une morale de l'ambiguïté - 1947.

Death, Freedom, Knowledge, Men, Truth

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A conquest of this kind is never finished; the contingency remains, and, so that he may assert his will, man is even obliged to stir up in the world the outrage he does not want.

The Ethics of Ambiguity - Pour une morale de l'ambiguïté - 1947.

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